Safety in the Arts

Many unrecognized chemical and physical hazards exist for people involved in the graphic media and performance arts. EH&S’s Safety in the Arts program aims to identify potential hazards and to institute guidelines designed to protect Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) artists against these hazards.
Some services that EH&S offers to CMU artists include:

Training classes related to the specific hazards that might be encountered in the work place (HazCom training for those working with chemicals, ladder safety training, etc.)

Access to MSDSonline, which provides users of hazardous materials with Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and information for product labels related to those hazards

Use of ChemTracker, an online inventory management system, to keep track of all of the hazardous chemicals on-hand